John Smith Announces 2017 UK / European Tour Dates, Listen!

English singer-songwriter John Smith has announced more European dates, which include headline shows and major festival appearances throughout the summer and fall. The tour will kick off with a string of festival dates on July 16 at the Latitude Festival in Southwold, UK and wraps on December 19 at B 72 in Bezirk-Ottakring, Austria. A complete list of dates can be found below.

Smith released his fifth studio album, Headlong, on June 30, 2017. The album debuted on the Music Week Indie Albums Chart at number 15 and the Indie Album Breakers at number 2. The first single, “Far Too Good”, can be streamed above. “This is one of my favorites from the new batch,” Smith says of the track. “I’ve opened all my live shows with this lately. It’s one of those songs that wrote itself, a rare occurrence – I’d just got off the phone with a friend who was having a hard time, so this one is for him.”

Headlong is dedicated to the memory of his close friend, songwriter John Renbourn, who passed in March of 2015. The album marks Smith’s first release since 2013’s Great Lakes.